'A kiss and hug and we never saw him again'

The sister of a man feared murdered after disappearing 17 years ago has said: “We gave him a kiss and a hug...and never saw him again.”
Martin Joyce - a father-of-one who would now be 45 - went missing aged 29 in September 1999. Detectives have now launched a murder investigation and forensic examiners have been digging and searching inside the former Bank of England pub in Ancoats .
Martin’s family say their ‘hearts are broken’ but they have ‘great belief’ that he is still alive.
He was last seen outside the pub two days before he went missing. Police said they have been ‘led to believe’... read more

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